This work is an examination of the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster. While some Irish-language sources are drawn-upon, the fact that these have already been used to explore Gaelic mentalités ...

The siege of Magdeburg 1550-1551 became an important reference point for the city in the early years of the Thirty Years War, as demonstrated in several printed works of the 1620s. The crisis which ended in Magdeburg's ...

This thesis examines the diverse and contested representations of Republican historical figures in mainland China. This research project was designed to discuss public history in mainland China, particularly how histories ...

The early modern period (1500-1700) is a transformative era in the history of Ireland, establishing many enduring processes, some of which still impact today. An important component is the ideological formation of the Irish ...

This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ...

In April 2023 the Board of Trinity College Dublin voted to de-name the Berkeley Library. Built in 1967 as the New Library and named after the Irish Philosopher, cleric, and Trinity alumnus, Bishop George Berkeley in 1978, ...

On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ...

This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ...

This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ...

The Butler Library, the topic of this thesis, is a collection of books which was given to Trinity College in the late eighteenth century. Theophilus Butler, Baron Newtown-Butler, a Dublin based politician who died in 1723, ...